Nouns denoting natural phenomena
- suction
- a force over an area produced by a pressure difference
- strong gale
- wind moving 47-54 knots; 9 on the Beaufort scale
- wattage
- the product of voltage and current
- scattering
- a light shower that falls in some locations and not others nearby
- sound spectrum
- the distribution of energy as a function of frequency for a particular sound source
- response
- a result
- paramagnetism
- materials like aluminum or platinum become magnetized in a magnetic field but it disappears when the field is removed
- P.E.
- the mechanical energy that a body has by virtue of its position; stored energy
- breaking point
- the degree of tension or stress at which something breaks
- ionic beam
- a beam of ions moving in the same direction at the same speed
- force
- (physics) the influence that produces a change in a physical quantity
- signal
- an electric quantity (voltage or current or field strength) whose modulation represents coded information about the source from which it comes
- harvest
- the consequence of an effort or activity
- Saint Elmo's light
- an electrical discharge accompanied by ionization of surrounding atmosphere
- polymorphism
- (genetics) the genetic variation within a population that natural selection can operate on
- cross-linkage
- a side bond that links two adjacent chains of atoms in a complex molecule
- rejection
- (medicine) an immunological response that refuses to accept substances or organisms that are recognized as foreign
- placebo effect
- any effect that seems to be a consequence of administering a placebo; the change is usually beneficial and is assumed result from the person's faith in the treatment or preconceptions about what the experimental drug was supposed to do; pharmacologists were the first to talk about placebo effects but now the idea has been generalized to many situations having nothing to do with drugs
- good fortune
- a stroke of luck
- greenhouse effect
- warming that results when solar radiation is trapped by the atmosphere; caused by atmospheric gases that allow sunshine to pass through but absorb heat that is radiated back from the warmed surface of the earth
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